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Reddit Status
- tylermenezes 7y agoI am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.) I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.
- danielbln 7y agoI don't know one way or the other, but I visit/use the site a lot (more than I should) and I rarely if ever see outages. For what it's worth.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoDo you use the actual site or do you use Reddit with an app? I think the actual site, Reddit.com, is the one with more outages.
- KennyFromIT 7y ago> I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime. I think this possibly shows that they have a good understanding of what's most important to their users. If they were to ensure the application was highly available (think six 9s), then they would be sacrificing resources elsewhere in order to achieve this. They could recognize that an outage will not be a "life or death" event for their users and have decided the trade-off was worth it. Counterpoint: Or, they could just be lazy (or incapable) and haven't tried to solve for higher availability. This is not likely.
- dralley 7y agoIf their time was instead spent on the redesign, it was completely wasted.
- falcolas 7y ago> I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages If they are like every other major company out there, status page reports are a function of a manager or PM judgement call, not the output of a monitoring system.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoLooking forward to this postmortem! Looks like their request rate has dropped by like 80%-90%!! Don't know if that include CDN requests or what, assuming it's just the reddit.com domain.
- cf141q5325 7y ago> Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Feb 19, 05:24 PST
- onplus 7y agoCDN was unable to reach servers.Happens again
- joefourier 7y agoDoes anyone know why Reddit seems to be alone among the world’s most popular sites in having so many outages and frequent periods of slowness? I’ve been on it for more than a decade and its unreliability has been fairly constant. Is the engineering team more resource constrained than others or held back by unusual amounts of legacy code, or is it simply confirmation bias resulting from earlier experiences?
- jakemal 7y agoTo me, it feels like outages are much less frequent than they were 7-10 years ago. It used to be a couple times a month. I don't remember the last time I saw one of their snoo error pages.
- EasyToRemember 7y agoThere was a AMA from the engineering team. I don't remember the technical details but in the picture there was like max 10 persons, That seem a little understaffed for a website a this scale
- mtmail 7y agoFrom AMA (ask [Reddit sysadmins] anything) announcement 2019/09/19 https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ver7h/14nov_reddit_infrastructure_ama/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ver7h/14nov_redd... "I can answer this! According to various sources (mainly, complaints on the redesign subreddit), the new.reddit interface is a lot less tolerant of timeouts and delays. Old.reddit was much more relaxed and would wait longer before throwing up errors (like logouts and such), but new.reddit is RESPONSIVE!, and the backend isn't playing nice with the new, tighter tolerances." Full AMA https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddits_infrastructure_team_ask_us_anything/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddi... Also a 2018 AMA summaryhttps://github.com/yanhan/notes/blob/master/reddit-sysadmins-ama.md https://github.com/yanhan/notes/blob/master/reddit-sysadmins...
- wycy 7y agoWow, I didn't know there was actually more to dislike about "new" reddit.
- ipnon 7y agoAnyone willing to put a price on 1 hour and 14 minutes of Reddit downtime? I would guess this cost less than a $1,000,000 USD but more than $100,000.
- gberger 7y agoAccording to [], they had $119M revenue in 2019. That's about $14k/h. [] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-user-base-grew-30-to-reach-430m-in-2019/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...
- ipnon 7y agoMy first exposure to empty set citations
- krilly 7y ago{} would at least be consistent with python string substitution, but [] doesn't make much sense to me
- txcwpalpha 7y agoGood find, although that would assume that every hour of the year is equally contributing to revenue. In reality I would think that an hour-long outage in the morning as everyone in N. America (still the largest percentage of reddit users) is reading reddit while waking up/drinking coffee is probably more costly than an hour-long outage while most of those users are asleep.
- kazagistar 7y agoCertainly negative cost for society, given all the freed up time.
- abhisuri97 7y agoold.reddit.com still works!
- DerekRobot 7y agoAnecdotal, but old.reddit.com (besides search) seems to always work during these outages. I'm guessing they're always knocking out the AJAX and search machines for some reason
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y ago>besides search Surely you're not attempting to imply that the search on old reddit worked in the first place?
- andrewzah 7y agoReddit’s search was and still is terrible. Using “site:reddit.com <query>” with google search is pretty much the only way to get meaningful results.
- dpcan 7y agoOh, an actual status report. I expected this to be a page that just said: "Mostly upset about stuff, but still quite witty, completely random, and - this is a re-post."
- badfrog 7y ago"vote backlog" is an interesting metric. Does anybody know how the vote counting system works?
- Spoom 7y agoI believe comments, posts, and votes are placed into a queue and later (seconds usually) committed to the database. They're not visible to the public until they're committed (but they make the UI act like it's already there for the poster themselves). Just a guess from my observations though.
- huffmsa 7y agoPretty standard pattern. Facebook does it as well.
- pscz 7y agoReddit is hosted on AWS. Are they using Fastly as their CDN because it's cheaper than AWS CloudFront CDN?
- cagenut 7y agono, because its better.
- mrfusion 7y agoI gave it some thought. I’ve distilled the reddit value proposition for me at least. Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments. With reddit it’s a common interface to every topic I’m interested in. I’m subscribed to about 60 subreddits now, from off grid cabins to deep learning to Spacex.
- swarnie_ 7y agoLots of people still don't want a single account which crosses all topics. I personally maintain three - A professional one mainly used on technology forums, another for politics only and then a final one for... Other stuff. I know lots of people who do similar.
- luma 7y agoSure, but reddit makes it easy to do that too, and it's still all in one place.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments. Bookmarks folder + Browser password manager + email notifications solves this for N forums where N is less than ~20. Sure, it's harder to have a really shallow level of engagement in a community if it's not all algorithmicly curated on one page (you actually have to go to the forums and check what's up vs seeing just the popular stuff in front of you) but I think for most interests that's probably a good thing for the community around that interest.
- bluedino 7y agoYou can get email updates to your forum posts
- jabroni_salad 7y agoI really wish all the websites my company worked with had a status page as good as this.
- michaelbrooks 7y agoThis is the tool they're using and it can be used for any website. https://www.statuspage.io/ https://www.statuspage.io/